TY  - BOOK
AU  - Badowska,Eva
AU  - Badowska,Eva
AU  - Baur,Michael
AU  - Jaworski,William
AU  - Koterski,Joseph W.
AU  - Parmeggiani,Francesca
AU  - Parmeggiani,Francesca
AU  - di Meana,Gabriella Ripa
TI  - Of Elephants and Toothaches: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue' 
SN  - 9780823267125
AV  - PN1992.77.D44 
U1  - 791.4572 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Religion on television
KW  - Television programs
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Poland
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Biblical intertext
KW  - Decalogue
KW  - Embodied experience
KW  - Krzysztof Kieslowski
KW  - dialogue
KW  - ethics in film
KW  - film cycle
KW  - moral unrest
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: "Within unrest, there is always a question" --; Chapter 1. Rules and Virtues: The Moral Insight of The Decalogue --; Chapter 2. Tablets of Stone, Tablets of Flesh: Synesthetic Appeal in The Decalogue --; Chapter 3. Decalogue One: Witnessing a Responsible Ethics of Response from a Jewish Perspective --; Chapter 4. Visual Reverberations: Decalogue Two and Decalogue Eight --; Chapter 5. Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy: Decalogue Three --; Chapter 6. Decalogue Four: The Mother up in Smoke, or "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" --; Chapter 7. Decalogue Five: A Short Film about Killing, Sin, and Community --; Chapter 8. States of Exception: Politics and Poetics in Decalogue Six --; Chapter 9. Decalogue Seven: A Tale of Love, Failing Words, and Moving Images --; Chapter 10. Decalogue Eight: Childhood, Emotion, and the Shoah --; Chapter 11. Divine Possession: Metaphysical Covetousness in Decalogue Nine --; Chapter 12. Laughter Makes Good Neighbors: Sociability and the Comic in Decalogue Ten --; Acknowledgments --; Contributors --; Index
N2  - This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle's deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieślowski as a major international director.Kieślowski once said, "Both the deep believer and the habitual skeptic experience toothaches in exactly the same way." Of Elephants and Toothaches takes seriously the range of thought, from theological to skeptical, condensed in the cycle's quite human tales. Bringing together scholars of film, philosophy, literature, and several religions, the volume ranges from individual responsibility, to religion in modernity, to familial bonds, to human desire and material greed. It explores Kieślowski's cycle as it relentlessly solicits an ethical response that stimulates both inner disquiet and interpersonal dialogue
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823267125?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823267125
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ER  -